Alone Lonely Quotes:

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

- John Spence

topic: Lonely, Mean, Thinking, Meant To Be Alone, Life Is Changing

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

- Robin Williams

topic: Love, Life, Thinking, Feeling Alone, Loneliness In Life

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Hilarious, Loneliness, Being Alone, Just Leave Me Alone, Me Alone

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

- Mark Twain

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Worst, Loneliness In Life, Lonely And Alone

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Lonely, Philosophical, Being Alone, Feeling Alone, Loneliness And Solitude

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

- Philip Sidney

source: Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

topic: Single, Being Alone, Noble, Feeling Alone, Lonely And Alone

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

- Yousuf Karsh

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Men, Loneliness And Solitude, Lonely And Alone

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Witty, Travel, Work, Solo Travel, Inspiration To Others

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

- Joan Collins

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Lonely And Alone, Lonely People

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

- Tom Wolfe

source: "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Lonely And Alone, Being Lonely

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

- Alfred Polgar

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude, Alone Lonely

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

- Ronald Anthony Cross

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone, Lonely And Alone

All great and precious things are lonely.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Lonely And Alone, East Of Eden

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

topic: Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely, Self Discovery, Feeling Alone

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

- Drew Barrymore

source: "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

topic: Dog, Lonely, Being Alone, Like Being Alone, Lonely And Alone

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

- Ellen Burstyn

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude, Loneliness And Solitude, Lonely And Alone

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

- Margaret Cho

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Alone Lonely

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Men, Like Being Alone, Lonely And Alone

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

- John Milton

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Eye, Feeling Alone, Lonely And Alone

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Inspirational, Life, Disappointment, Isolation And Loneliness, Loneliness And Solitude

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Lonely, Men, Thinking, Always Alone, Feeling Alone

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

topic: Love, Lonely, Men, Always Alone, Feeling Alone

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Life, Depressing, Loneliness, Loneliness In Life, Lonely And Alone

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely, Lonesome, Loneliness And Solitude

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Loneliness In Life, Lonely And Alone, Lonely Feeling, Lonely World, Feeling Lonely

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Music, Loneliness, Being Single, Singles, Lonely Feeling

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

- Orson Welles

topic: Love, Life, Depressing, Always Alone, Feeling Alone

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Lonely And Alone

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Middlemarch, Lonely And Alone

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

- Yul Brynner

topic: Born, Always Alone, Feeling Alone, Cherish Every Moment, Live Life Happy

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

- Jules Renard

topic: Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Like Being Alone

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

- Anne Frank

source: Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Happiness, God, Lonely, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

- Douglas Coupland

source: Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Lonely, Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Irony Of Life

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Confidence, Lonely, Clever, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Heart, Answers, Doe, Shrinks, Feeling Alone

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Loneliness, Inspiration, Feeling Alone, Loneliness And Solitude

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Lonesome, Feeling Alone

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak, Hunger For Love, Hunger Poverty

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Being Alone, Unhappy, Always Alone, Lonely And Alone

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone, Loneliness And Solitude, Lonely And Alone

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

- Donald Miller

source: "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

topic: Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness, Hunger And Thirst, Powerful Words

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Lonely, People, Company, Lonely People, Alone Lonely